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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. ↗

— Pierre Charron

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable. ↗

— Thomas More

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By the time I stepped down as Xerox's CEO in 2009 - and as chairman in January 2010 - Xerox had become the vibrant, profitable and revitalized company that it still is today. What made the difference was a strong turnaround plan, dedicated people and a firm commitment from company leaders. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

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I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line. ↗

— Mario Puzo

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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it. ↗

— Irene Peter

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We continued the hard work of integrating TWA, because at that time we still thought an efficient connecting hub in St. Louis could be a profitable addition to our network. ↗

— Gerard Arpey

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There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable. ↗

— Terry Semel

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What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands. ↗

— Susan George

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